WEAR-TV Airs News Over "The Ten Commandments"

[who?cares 254]

I live in pensacola 2 months out of the year, and WEAR is not that bad, maybe it's the programming.

[Ntropolis 596]

All I know is that when I moved to southern Missouri, most of the neighbor folk didn't take kindly to me mowing my lawn on Sunday. Something to the effect that I would have been stoned to death back in the days of the bible. Yeah, I can feel the love.

 

What'd they do?

[mre29 1520]

To ditch The Ten Commandments, and THEN to post a headline such as this on their website: "The federal government is warning people to check their cantaloupes". Riiiiiiiight.

 

To say nothing of the "surmons".

[Ntropolis 596]

To say nothing of the "surmons".

 

So Marcus has a job with WEAR now?

[Weeters 1916]

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[Dave Lampstein 107]

WIN!

[Sam Horn 78]

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[Mario500 3]

Local radio talk show host Uncle Henry has received my electronic mail concerning WEAR’s treatment of “The Ten Commandments” and posted it on WNTM-AM’s website. Unfortunately due to technical issues with the station since Sunday, my message won’t be mentioned on his show until tomorrow at best. Here it is now that it's online:

 

Hello,

 

On Saturday, television viewers in the area designated by Nielsen Media Research as Mobile-Pensacola were looking forward to watching the 1956 version of the movie “The Ten Commandments” on WEAR-TV. Unbeknownst to many local viewers is that the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) had intended to air the movie beginning at 6:00 PM Central time.

 

As viewers in our area waited one hour until 7:00 PM, the notorious ABC affiliate from Pensacola, Florida was airing an hour-long newscast as usual on a Saturday evening. After the newscast ended and 7:00 PM appeared on our timepieces, viewers anticipating “The Ten Commandments” saw a black screen a few seconds. It became obvious that they had missed one hour of the movie’s broadcast. This just reinforces my belief that WEAR-TV is one of the worst ABC affiliates in the country.

 

For years they have tape-delayed “Nightline”, occasionally pre-empted primetime network programming for a “make-good” movie (which earns them more advertising money), tape-delayed ABC’s overnight newscast “World News Now”, blocked out late night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for the show’s first few years, blocked out the weekend editions of ABC’s “World News”, and blocked out daytime serial “Port Charles” for its entire run. This year’s treatment of “The Ten Commandments” was unacceptable and it should prompt viewers to demand great changes at Channel 3 or an alternate ABC affiliate.

 

If possible, WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi would serve this area better as an ABC affiliate. Maybe WALA-TV should switch network affiliations with Channel 3, which would make a great FOX affiliate based on past programming such as “The Jerry Springer Show” and “The Maury Povich Show”, both of which no longer air in southwest Alabama. Instead, they air on Channel 3’s “sister station” in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Viewers on the Alabama side of the market are not missing much on that station, which is too far away to be picked up by antenna or a cable system such as Comcast or Mediacom.

 

As for me, I do miss the syndicated morning newscast “The Daily Buzz”, which used to air on WBPG-TV, our area’s CW Television Network affiliate. I believe Channel 10 didn’t want a morning newscast on their “sister station” competing against their own program, so they allowed “The Daily Buzz” to go over to Channel 3’s “sister station”.

 

There was a time when Channel 10 carried programming from all four TV networks, including the DuMont network. After WKRG-TV went on the air in 1955 and DuMont ceased to exist as a network, Channel 10 was affiliated with ABC and NBC for a while until Channel 3 got a new transmitter between Mobile and Pensacola in 1960. Maybe it’s time to talk to ABC again, Channel 10. Thank you for reading and may the TV viewers and listeners of Mobile-Pensacola suffer no more.

[DMA 135]

FunFact: Even ABC O&O's tape delay World News Now

[Weeters 1916]

Even Notorious WABC, the number one station in the world?

[DMA 135]

Indeed, they notoriously air a replay of the 11pm News, and air it 1 hour later. The horror.

[tyrannical bastard 3951]

Indeed, they notoriously air a replay of the 11pm News, and air it 1 hour later. The horror.

 

Now if only WEAR (or any Mobile-Pensacola station) did such an atrocity;)

but with all the paid programming everyone airs, it's not likely going to happen!

[who?cares 254]

Actually, scratch that. You're out of your mind regardless. I swear to God you rant about "notorious ABC affiliate WEAR" pre-empting stuff weekly.

 

 

I agree.

[Mario500 3]

I'm aware of the affiliation contracts these stations have, but if you get enough viewers behind the same issues and spread the message you can really make a difference. Eventually something good will come out of all of this and WEAR will regret their years of notoriety.

[WXmanTim 88]

Local radio talk show host Uncle Henry has received my electronic mail concerning WEAR’s treatment of “The Ten Commandments” and posted it on WNTM-AM’s website. Unfortunately due to technical issues with the station since Sunday, my message won’t be mentioned on his show until tomorrow at best. Here it is now that it's online:

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Good grief chyle. For all our collective sanity, calm down.

 

"The Ten Commandments" will be aired next year - same bat time, same bat channel. If your hard-on for Bible porn won't wait til then, try netflix or blockbuster.

 

I mean, seriously, everyone - even athiests, I reckon - know the the story of Moses' reed basket ride down the Nile where he was adopted by the post-"All About Eve" rising star Ann Baxter and raised by Yul Brenner (fresh off his award winning role in "The King and I").

 

Of how he eventually grew up to be a bearded Charleton Heston, hearing the voice of Donald Hayne spew forth from a badly cg'd burning bush.

 

Of how he demanded "Let my people go!" and before stamping his cane for effect.

 

Of how he parted the swimming pool on the Paramount lot and climbed a cardboard and chicken-wire mountain to deliver the titular fifteen comm...(oh, no wait. Sorry, wrong movie. That was Mel Brooks in "A History of the World, Part 1")...Ten Commandments...to a stunned and goat-worshipping band of wanderers.

 

It's a movie, dude...and the script is located between the story of creation and the creation of the Hebrew laws. If you don't know the story by now, your homeschool teacher isn't doing a very good job.

[Mario500 3]

I can watch the movie anytime I choose and I know the story, but WEAR ruined the experience for many viewers (including some first time viewers, I suppose).

[Weeters 1916]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this year's Aeverine Nieves award goes to... Mario500! Congrats!

[WXmanTim 88]

(including some first time viewers, I suppose).

 

The movie is 52-years-old and its run on ABC has spanned almost 40 of that...the only "first time viewers" haven't been born yet.

[DMA 135]

I highly doubt anybody would actually want to watch this movie, so it's a non-issue. Stop being OCD about it.

[Dave Lampstein 107]

I like watching the movie...

[Dave Lampstein 107]

Thank god I can count on ONE OF AMERICA'S LEADING ABC STATIONS.

[alaskanews 113]

Thank god I can count on ONE OF AMERICA'S LEADING ABC STATIONS.

 

Just one of them though...

[Mario500 3]

Why is it that you're the only one making a major stink about this?

 

Because someone has to stand up for what is right, even if it involves a movie that can be seen anytime aside from its annual broadcast. If no one stands up from the crowd, stations like WEAR will continue to do whatever they choose at the expense of viewers.

 

This is only the beginning, folks, as my message will be mentioned on a popular local radio talk show by a host whose favorite movie is "The Ten Commandments".

[A3N 1002]

Because someone has to stand up for what is right, even if it involves a movie that can be seen anytime aside from its annual broadcast. If no one stands up from the crowd, stations like WEAR will continue to do whatever they choose at the expense of viewers.

 

This is only the beginning, folks, as my message will be mentioned on a popular local radio talk show by a host whose favorite movie is "The Ten Commandments".

 

You know, you have an obsession with WEAR the same way Aeverine Nieves has with WTHR. Clearly, one can tell that you have lost it because nobody makes such a fuss over a movie. I'm sure WEAR does not give a flying rat's ass about what you have to say because after all some of your complaints against the notorious WEAR are quite pointless. If bitching and complaining about WEAR is all you do, then you need to find yourself another hobby. SERIOUSLY.